The 20 Best College Campuses In The UShttp://www.businessinsider.com/best-college-campuses-2013-8/comments
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India's top Best College Campuses Under CAThttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/520d0501ecad04ac44000011Jim CraighillThu, 15 Aug 2013 12:42:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520d0501ecad04ac44000011
Duke, UVA, UNC, BC aren't on this list? Seriously? Any article will tell you the Grounds at UVA is one of the most beautiful campuses in the country. And to think Tech is on this list...the writer of this article has obviously never visited the depressing town of Blacksburg, much less toured the campus of Tech.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520aaeffeab8ea785c000017TeekBC15Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:11:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520aaeffeab8ea785c000017
Did you really just say Hamilton was in NH? You're a parroter.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520aae8c6bb3f7e102000001TeekBC15Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:09:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520aae8c6bb3f7e102000001
It absolutely blows my mind that Boston College isn't on this list.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5209364c6bb3f74b3800000fDoug1973Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:23:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5209364c6bb3f74b3800000f
I can think of a lot of college campuses that are way nicer than any on this list...Cornell ("Classic" college campus), Pepperdine (Malibu!), UCSB (Paradise), The Evergreen State College (Sits on a 1,000 acre temperate rain forest), Hamilton College (Classic new Hampshire), Humboldt State, etc.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5207af3269bedd4f2a000004BerdiSun, 11 Aug 2013 11:35:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5207af3269bedd4f2a000004
Wellesley has them all beat!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52078bc5ecad04a374000023fact checkerSun, 11 Aug 2013 09:04:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52078bc5ecad04a374000023
well I dont know about Vueginia but I know in Virginia UVA doesnt have a campus on the same level as VT. and since you didnt write the article itself maybe stop conjecturing on why they included certain information.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52071ff2ecad046b1a00000dsvSun, 11 Aug 2013 01:24:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52071ff2ecad046b1a00000d
Is short stop deli still around? This was the only redeeming factor for me through the cold, cold, dreadful Ithaca winter....http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520717ad6bb3f7fa2700000fsvSun, 11 Aug 2013 00:48:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520717ad6bb3f7fa2700000f
cornell is ok, but too spread out, and way too cold in the winter. Stanford is too intimidating. Way too much money. Berkeley has too many hills = too tiring. The other UCs, though, are very comfortable. My vote is for UCSB. All a student could ask for.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52066cc269bedd3327000016Steve BodySat, 10 Aug 2013 12:39:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52066cc269bedd3327000016
"Blacksburg is the largest town in Virginia"?!? Did the people who out this together bother to consult even a road atlas. Blacksburg is waaay down the list of Virginia population centers, even if you're drawing a nit-picky distinction between "town" and "city". It undercuts the credibility of any list like this when such a glaring error makes it into the text.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205c43c69bedd1235000014aus10sibleSat, 10 Aug 2013 00:40:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205c43c69bedd1235000014
Must you mention the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech when presenting an article stating that the Virginia Tech campus is one of the top 5 most beautiful in the country? I understand that the shooting was well publicized and is infamous, but why dirty up an article about beauty with words like 'massacre' ? There are many other interesting things about the school that are unrelated to death and entirely related to beauty.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205bfef6bb3f7dd26000009Markus OlympicSat, 10 Aug 2013 00:22:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205bfef6bb3f7dd26000009
How to Furman University, Wheelock College, Lynn University, Mueller College, Flagler College, Alvernia University, Drexel University, Walden University? And, in the Canada University is of the Fraser Valley, Ashton College.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205bcc3ecad04db0300000fIdi AminSat, 10 Aug 2013 00:08:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205bcc3ecad04db0300000f
I would take Pepperdine (Malibu, CA) over any of these schools.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52059175eab8eaaf52000001NamcheFri, 09 Aug 2013 21:03:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52059175eab8eaaf52000001
I've lived in Vueginia for almost 49 years and this is the first time I've seen the VaTech campus nationally ranked. While the campus is okay, it certainly merits little mention in a Top 20 list. And to leave the grounds if UVa out of the list brings into question the credibility of the rankings. UVa is widely thought of as one if the finest "campuses" in America. It has been on every list I have seen. It makes no sense to place VaTech on the list w/o UVa ranked higher. Much like it makes no sense to point out Blacksburg is the largest town in Virginia. That is a wierd and irrelevant point to make in the write up.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52058fe069bedd5f4300001cBobbyFri, 09 Aug 2013 20:57:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52058fe069bedd5f4300001c
The incidence of suicide at Cornell is comparable to other schools. They just happen in a more dramatic fashion.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52058e1969bedd7f3e000018LynFri, 09 Aug 2013 20:49:29 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52058e1969bedd7f3e000018
Go Whitman!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520589ce6bb3f7b73d000017LaxFri, 09 Aug 2013 20:31:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520589ce6bb3f7b73d000017
I've been to several campuses on the list but I would say the best one is missing out .... Cornell Ithaca is absolutely stunning compared to the others on the list.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520578a969bedd6315000007itisjarredFri, 09 Aug 2013 19:18:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520578a969bedd6315000007
How did Virginia Military Institute or Duke not make the list but Sweet Briar did?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52055942ecad042f4f00000aRyanFri, 09 Aug 2013 17:04:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52055942ecad042f4f00000a
It's not their fault their incoming freshmen are hacks who can't cut it! If they didn't cheat their way through highschool, they wouldn't be in that fix. The campus is beautiful.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520550996bb3f7d659000003Markus OlympicFri, 09 Aug 2013 16:27:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520550996bb3f7d659000003
It true boy, Cornell University, Arizona State University (AS) Iowa State Universiy, Rice University, Nova Southeastern University, California Berkeley University has the best of the best. In the europe Wrocław University of Technology is the besthttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/520539776bb3f7912700002dWednesdayFri, 09 Aug 2013 14:48:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520539776bb3f7912700002d
RICE? I mean, I agree that the campus is completely stunning but how are you supposed to enjoy it when the weather is 100 degrees with 90% humidity for most of the year? Houston is great... after October and until April.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52053255ecad047d04000012genius1234Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:17:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52053255ecad047d04000012
Someone sounds salty that their campus didn't get on here. Don't cry too much...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52052ca369beddab6700002aFalseFri, 09 Aug 2013 13:53:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52052ca369beddab6700002a
How is Florida Gulf Coast University not number 1?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205251ceab8eac06c000086mmmm83Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:21:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205251ceab8eac06c000086
Wow, cry about it why don't you. Duke is in the middle of the ghetto...that's enough to knock it way down the list.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205215cecad042864000004matt198234Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:05:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5205215cecad042864000004
bleah... this is the same thing people from thailand are used to eat.. are you really comfortable with slurping a baby duck? I'm definitely NOThttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/520510f3ecad04204500000aAlex TFri, 09 Aug 2013 11:55:31 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520510f3ecad04204500000a
Blacksburg is a town, not a city. It is far and away the largest town in the state, and there are many cities which are less than half the size. It was decided years ago that the effort to become a city, and transfer some of the civic responsibilities from the county to the new city government, were not worth the effort.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52050865ecad047031000014VT HokieFri, 09 Aug 2013 11:19:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52050865ecad047031000014
The way it works: Virginia has many towns but most are small. There are much bigger CITIES but not towns in Virginia. Its a loophole to make it sound bigger than we are. We are the biggest town thanks to 35k students. Otherwise its a small townhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5204fe5d6bb3f7c33b000007DonSFri, 09 Aug 2013 10:36:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5204fe5d6bb3f7c33b000007
Did you guys not read the criteria and methodology? Go back to the Intro and read. It's based on a composite of 11 categories Princeton produces every year. It's not 'most beautiful', it's best, based a series of existing rankings...that's how UVA/Cornel/Duke are not on here, perhaps.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520482a369bedd146700002bAre you kidding me?Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:48:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520482a369bedd146700002b
Seriously, Claremont, California has 3 on the list.....Is this list a joke?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52046df4eab8ea4578000005tsicbyFri, 09 Aug 2013 00:20:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52046df4eab8ea4578000005
Oh please, I can't believe UT Austin isn't at the top of this list. The resources, amenities, campus life and integration with the city are spectacular. This list is prejudiced in favor California's scenery and hyping the Ivy League to justify it's inflated tuition. What a joke.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52046c3decad04020c000018dagmanFri, 09 Aug 2013 00:12:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52046c3decad04020c000018
I have been to more than a third of the campuses on this list, and not one of them holds a candle to Duke (or UVA for that matter). I guess the people who prepared the rankings didn't like the sub-par hospital adjacent to the campus or the crappy little church! Perhaps they don't like the picturesque Gothic architecture of the West Campus or the stately Georgian architecture of the East Campus. Perhaps it was because the Campus only contains one Golf Course. Maybe they didn't like the way everything is crammed in to only 8600 acres or the 55 acre Duke Gardens that attract more than 300,000 non-student visitors a year! There are plenty of good reasons to select almost any of these schools over Duke, but the Campus is not one of them.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5204655b6bb3f7501600000fjwaltersbiThu, 08 Aug 2013 23:43:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5204655b6bb3f7501600000f
Thanks for the information. In other words, the metric being used is population of an incorporated town. That is how Blacksburg (per 2010 data, but Leesburg per 2012 data) is the largest town in VA. Blacksburg had a population of 42,627 in 2012. I have confused town with independent city. VA Beach, an independent city (and a county-equivalent for the purpose of defining MSAs in Virginia, like Richmond), for example, has 447,021 people, and even Danville, VA has 42,996 people per 2012 data. I think of Danville, incorrectly, as a town, but it's an independent city. Same with Covington and Emporia, VA, both are small independent cities and not towns. Now that I know this, then saying a town in VA is the largest town in the state no longer has the same meaning or significance.
I think of northern VA as a whole, perhaps as a metropolitan statistical area, or of VA Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, or of Richmond or Roanoke when I think of large population areas in Virginia.
Lesson: Know definitions.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52044a796bb3f73a67000007PJThu, 08 Aug 2013 21:48:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52044a796bb3f73a67000007
This list is mental. Any list that leaves off the grounds at the University of Virginia is crazy.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520440ef69bedd5c60000003Stuck in the 70sThu, 08 Aug 2013 21:07:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520440ef69bedd5c60000003
You are about 30 years behind the times. SCAQMD took care of that! We see the mountains just fine and exercise outdoors any time we like. It's especially nice in the winter - 70 degrees and sunny.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52043f806bb3f79453000008rjb_bostonThu, 08 Aug 2013 21:01:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52043f806bb3f79453000008
these lists get more meaningless by the day.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52042608ecad04390800000c804Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:13:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52042608ecad04390800000c
It is the largest incorporated town in the state of Virginia as of the 2010 Census. In VA all cities have their own independent jurisdictions whereas towns are still subject to the county in which they reside. What does this mean? That the town of Blacksburg has to work with the Montgomery County government as it doesn't have it's own identity separate from the county.
This is a fact that all Virginians know, the Commonwealth is one of the only states where cities are technically their own counties i.e. the City of Richmond, Radford City (a much smaller neighboring community of Blacksburg).http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5204232aeab8ea8a5a00000fS. DonnerThu, 08 Aug 2013 19:00:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5204232aeab8ea8a5a00000f
Claremont, Scripps and Pomona have the WORST smog in America. The nearby mountains are usually invisible. People can't exercise outside many afternoons. Who needs that?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520423286bb3f75f1f000006S. DonnerThu, 08 Aug 2013 19:00:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/520423286bb3f75f1f000006
Claremont, Scripps and Pomona have the WORST smog in America. The nearby mountains are usually invisible. People can't exercise outside many afternoons. Who needs that?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52041c9469bedd8f0b00000bBigredThu, 08 Aug 2013 18:32:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52041c9469bedd8f0b00000b
But Ithaca totally blows.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5204001d69bedd314900001fMattMattThu, 08 Aug 2013 16:31:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5204001d69bedd314900001f
you mean the one where everyone kills themselves?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203ffc269beddd84b000008MattMattThu, 08 Aug 2013 16:29:54 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203ffc269beddd84b000008
How in the sweet name of Jesus did UC Santa Barbara not make this list? It has it's own beach, people.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203ee93eab8eada71000007march21Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:16:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203ee93eab8eada71000007
Cornell's campus, in my opinion is the loveliest.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203ecbaecad048b1d000012Jeff NolanThu, 08 Aug 2013 15:08:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203ecbaecad048b1d000012
well that certainly explains what the dramatic inflation of college tuition over the last 20 years has gone into.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e8ea6bb3f7ec2b000017bdbrThu, 08 Aug 2013 14:52:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e8ea6bb3f7ec2b000017
I agree. I went to Kansas State and I've been to CU, and Boulder is much nicer.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e87b69bedd5915000023tivoboyThu, 08 Aug 2013 14:50:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e87b69bedd5915000023
Wow, sort of surprised how Vtech gets on this list and UVA (The University) does not?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e67becad04020e00002dBride of FrankeberryThu, 08 Aug 2013 14:42:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e67becad04020e00002d
Seems like Univeristy of Hawaii would have been on here.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e328ecad04620900000dJay SprouseThu, 08 Aug 2013 14:27:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e328ecad04620900000d
Yes, the data used to compile the list above lacks integrity.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e0b86bb3f7a322000005epowisThu, 08 Aug 2013 14:17:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203e0b86bb3f7a322000005
How is Boulder not on this list?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203df8469bedd9f02000010Jay SprouseThu, 08 Aug 2013 14:12:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203df8469bedd9f02000010
Obviously you have never been to Sewanee: The University of the South.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203db876bb3f78715000008jwaltersbiThu, 08 Aug 2013 13:55:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203db876bb3f78715000008
How is Blacksburg, VA the largest town in VA? By what metric are you measuring town size? I don't believe it's the most populated, nor is it the town with the most businesses, revenues, etc in VA is it?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203d95769bedddd7100001fJason BarellThu, 08 Aug 2013 13:45:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5203d95769bedddd7100001f
This is wrong. Cornell University has the best campus.